IMHU Future
IMHU is celebrating our 11th year anniversary on May 11, 2024. We want to share the path ahead. We invite you to also share your interests so we can add your comments to discussion about future presentations. Click HERE to submit.
We understand that helping people understand and appropriately support spiritual emergence, i.e. awakening, is our niche. We are delighted that more licensed mental health professionals are taking our courses to get the training needed to support clients in intense awakening experiences. We also delight in seeing peer specialists, life-experiencers and concerned family members learning together. Click HERE for our links to courses in this area.
New Courses + Directions
To expand on this specialty we will soon launch:
- An engaging and powerful course on “Inner Ethics®” with Kylea Taylor, MFC. This addresses the profound need for increasing inner awareness within those who are guides or sitters working with non-ordinary states of consciousness via breathwork, plant medicines or psychedelics or meditation. Reviews speak of this as an “essential” learning.
- A bonus to the above is interviews with Will Hall, MA, who speaks candidly about abuses that have been perpetrated by former teachers of guides/sitters. Also an interview with Susana Bustos, PhD from Chile and professor in the USA pays special attention to the need to acknowledge indigenous traditions in using plant medicines and psychedelics.
- A new version of “Training in Helping with Integration of Psychedelic Experiences” with Sonia Doulton, MA. This will include a live zoom session with the facilitator.
IMHU is currently exploring how to bring knowledge and skills related to Spiritual Emergence phenomena to military veterans and first responders so they are in a position to identify these experiences within themselves and/or help others. This will involve adapting many of our courses to this particular audience. A team is coming together to do just that.
IMHU is also a patron of the June 8&9, 2024 online conference given by Spiritual Awakenings International. Click HERE for more information. There will be 40 outstanding speakers from 14 different countries. We are also open to other collaborations.
IMHU Future Course: Do Entities Exist?
During the last training for Spiritual Emergence Coaches® in April, 2024, there was great excitement and interest to speak about entities that may attach to people–especially those exploring non-ordinary states. When I was in Mexico in December, 2023 I saw a traditional diorama representing the Nativity in the center of the city–and directly beside it was a representative of an evil entity (photo above). Clearly the city fathers were acknowledging that both exist. I watched as children came up close to the evil entity to touch the necklace in its mouth and wonder about what the being represents.
Is it time to offer you a presentation on entities? What they are…who acknowledges their existence…which psychiatrists help their patients become free of them & how…what you can do to become immune to their negative influence…and more.
Possession is not recognized by materialists as it involves energies that are invisible and cannot be measured scientifically. Materialists would simply push the notion of evil spirits into the realm of obsolete superstition. However, all indigenous cultures recognize the existence of entities and the need to understand how to avoid negative influence and respond to those with positive influence. Spiritists all over the world currently take this into account as do our First Nations in North America.
IMHU Future Relates to YOU
Please click on the following link to go to a google form where you can submit your interests as we plan for future presentations: https://forms.gle/mJCabQ7bpxAfQ8y77
THANK YOU!!!!
(All photos by Emma Bragdon)
Yes, it is time to introduce the issue of spirits/entities that attach, influence, irritate or more rarely possess people. Widely recognised by almost all traditions and faiths, much credible and quality information can be drawn from shamanic and spiritist traditions and also from healers in the West who focus on Spirit Release. One of the biggest areas of confusion is how and why this happens. Understanding the mechanism of how spirits can influence us and the many steps we can take to prevent this from happening are also important areas to priorities. Many individuals who have been influenced by spirits are anxious, fearful or worried and reluctant if not despairing to step forward for help. An introduction to this topic by a credible and well respected organisation such as the IMHU would help many. More modern, compassionate and empathetic approaches to spirit release can also be introduced, from spiritism in Latin American to hypnotherapy or to working with guides and spiritual helpers.